https://blog.rajpoot.dev/tags/rate-limiting/ Recent content in Rate Limiting on Manvendra Rajpoot https://blog.rajpoot.dev/img/personal/cover.png https://blog.rajpoot.dev/img/personal/cover.png Hugo en Manvendra Rajpoot Sun, 17 May 2026 17:50:46 +0530 https://blog.rajpoot.dev/system-design/design-rate-limiter-2026/ Sat, 02 May 2026 08:20:00 +0530 https://blog.rajpoot.dev/system-design/design-rate-limiter-2026/ Design a rate limiter from first principles in 2026 — token bucket, sliding window, distributed Redis-backed limiter, and the patterns from real systems. https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/backend/api-rate-limit-design-2026/ Fri, 01 May 2026 03:10:00 +0530 https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/backend/api-rate-limit-design-2026/ How to design API rate limits that customers can use — tiers, quota types, response headers, 429 patterns, and the patterns from popular APIs. https://blog.rajpoot.dev/system-design/design-rate-limiter-distributed-2026/ Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:20:00 +0530 https://blog.rajpoot.dev/system-design/design-rate-limiter-distributed-2026/ How to scale a rate limiter beyond single-Redis in 2026 — sharded counters, local-then-global hybrid, sliding-window approximations, and the patterns at billion-request scale. https://blog.rajpoot.dev/system-design/design-rate-limiter-system-design/ Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:20:00 +0530 https://blog.rajpoot.dev/system-design/design-rate-limiter-system-design/ A complete system design for a distributed rate limiter — token bucket, leaky bucket, sliding window log, sliding window counter, and how to build them with Redis at scale. https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/backend/rate-limiting-strategies-for-apis/ Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:05:00 +0530 https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/backend/rate-limiting-strategies-for-apis/ How to rate limit your API properly — fixed window, sliding window, leaky bucket, token bucket, Redis implementations, and what to put in your headers.